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Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2018
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! · How to deliver malware using weaponized Microsoft […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2018
The author of the infamous Kraken ransomware has released a new version of the malicious code and launched a RaaS distribution program on the Dark Web. Researchers from Recorded Future’s Insikt Group and McAfee’s Advanced Threat Research team have discovered a new version of the malware that is offered through a RaaS distribution program on the Dark Web. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 03, 2018
Twitter announced to have deleted more than 10,000 accounts managed by bots that were posting messages to influence U.S. Midterm election. Twitter announced to have deleted more than 10,000 accounts managed by bots that were posting messages to discourage people from voting in Tuesday’s U.S. Midterm election. The accounts were created to appear from Democrats, but […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 03, 2018
According to the Symantec experts, the group behind the SamSam ransomware has continued to launch attacks against organizations during 2018. Security experts from Symantec published an interesting post on the evolution of the SamSam ransomware that in the last month was involved in targeted attacks against several organizations including the Colorado Department of Transportation (DOT) and the City […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 03, 2018
Cybercriminals offered for sale private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook accounts claiming of being in possession of data from 120 million accounts. Crooks are offering for sale Criminals are selling the private messages of 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts for 10 cents per account. According to the BBC, crooks are offering for sale on underground […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2018
Federal prosecutors accuse former CIA employee Joshua Adam Schulte of continuing leaks classified national defense materials from prison. Joshua Adam Schulte (30) has been charged with 13 count indictment in June. In middle May, both The New York Times and The Washington Post, revealed the name of the alleged source of the Vault 7 leak, the man who passed the secret […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2018
A cyber attack on a French firm Ingerop allowed attackers to access confidential documents related to nuclear power plant plans in France. The hacker stole more than 65 gigabytes of documents back in June, the huge trove of documents includes nuclear power plant plants and blueprints for prisons and tram networks. According to the media, some […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2018
Security experts from CISCO warn of a zero-day vulnerability that is being actively exploited in attacks in the wild. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2018-15454, affects the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) inspection engine of Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD). The flaw could be exploited by a remote attacker to trigger a DoS condition […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2018
Austal, a top Australia defence firm reports also working with the United States Navy has suffered a serious security breach. Austal, a top Australia defence firm reports working with the US Navy has suffered a serious security breach, hackers accessed to personnel files and that it was the subject of an extortion attempt. Austal reported the data breach to the Australian Securities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2018
According to the New York Times, FIFA has suffered the second hack in a year, new documents are set to be published on Friday by Football Leaks. The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, aka FIFA, is a governing body of association football, futsal, and beach soccer. FIFA reveals it was the victim of a new successful phishing campaign that resulted in the exposed […]
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